Queens Park Rangers have lost their fifth game in a row by the odd goal this afternoon, courtesy of a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Sheffield Wednesday.

After a quiet opening ten minutes in west London from both sides, the visitors took the lead with their first chance through Adam Reach.

Daniel Pudil got a cross in from the left and the ball deflected into the path of Reach several yards from goal, with the midfielder slamming low past Alex Smithies.

However, QPR got themselves level in bizarre circumstances soon after. Jamie Mackie received a return pass in the box and went to ground - Sheffield Wednesday's defence just stopped - and Idrissa Sylla stole the loose ball and drilled home.

The weird thing was that Hoops fans didn't know whether to celebrate at first as everyone expected an offside or free-kick as Wednesday just froze without reacting to anything.

But the play-off hopefuls regained the lead on the half-hour through Pudil. After Joel Lynch had given away a free-kick, the ball was sent in, Smithies pulled off an instinctive save from Jordan Rhodes' header, but left-back Pudil was quickest to react to head home as Smithies was getting set again.

It could have been three soon after as Ross Wallace was picked out superbly by Reach, and as he was about pull the trigger, Jake Robinson came in with a last-ditch tackle.

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Rangers nearly grabbed an equaliser close to half-time when a long throw from Robinson caused havoc and it came off the back of Wednesday player - under pressure from Sylla - to force a flying save from Kieren Westwood.

Into the second period and QPR boss Ian Holloway decided to take Michael Petrasso off and being on the tricky Kazenga Lua Lua.

Jake Bidwell spurned a big chance inside the box on the volley early on, while Rangers fans were calling for a penalty when Mackie looked to have been fouled by the onrushing Westwood.

Wednesday's Barry Bannan was inches from putting his side 3-1 up with a stinging effort just over from the edge of the box.

Rangers sent on strike duo Conor Washington and then Matt Smith, with both combining with Sylla to make a three-man attack.

Holloway's side threw men forward late on as expected, but lacked that killer instinct in the Wednesday box.

With four minutes added on, it gave Rangers enough time to salvage a point but they couldn't and head into the west London derby with Brentford in need of a big wake-up call.